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Your Top ten favorite silent films

posted 17 years ago by SakowskyBrothers
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Starting this post to see what other kind of silent film favorites people have.

Here are mine.
(revised)

1.Citylights (1931)
2.Battleship potemkin (1925)
3.The Passion of Joan of Arc (/w Voices of light st)(1928)
4.The General (1927)
5.Metropolis (1927)
6.Sunrise (1927)
7.Goldrush (1925)
8.Nosferatu (1922)
9.Sherlock Jr.(1924)
10.Greed (1924)

As you can see I mostly like the short but sweet silent films hence I follow the code.

"A film should only be as long as you can hold your bladder"- Alfred Hitchcock

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[–] magic8ball2112 14 years ago

Admittedly I've only seen about a handful of silents. They just aren't screened much around here & I no longer have cable so (assuming its still aired) TCM's Silent Sundays is no longer an option. From what I HAVE seen:

7)Phantom of the Opera (1925)
6)Battleship Potemkin (1925)
5)A Fool There Was (1915)
4)Wings (1927)
3)The Rink (1916)
2)Cops (1922 short)
1)The General (1926)

Special mention towards the "traveling" film "San Francisco 1905 - 1906"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHqpHf_Znzs

[–] SpideyFan914 14 years ago

1. City Lights (One of my favorite movies of all time!)
2. The General (I haven't seen in many, many years, and honestly barely even remember it. But now I found it on Netflix instant! YAY!!)
3. Sunrise (Don't understand the hate. I think it's a beautiful, amazing movie.)
4. Modern Times (Yes, I'm a Chaplin fan....)
5. Passion of Joan of Arc
6. Our Hospitality
7. Sherlock, Jr.
8. The Circus

I'm having a hard coming up with 10, haha.... I still need to see Metropolis, The Kid, Greed, Intolerance, basically anything by D.W.Griffith, and a few more Keatons.

[–] Foot_Freakin_Master 14 years ago

Can't add much. Just want to second a few, though I there are many more I like.

Pandora's Box
The Crowd
Ben Hur

Modern Times, a semi silent, is one of my all time favorite movies of any kind.
Oh, I can't help but love The Circus, even more than The Gold Rush. I am in a minority I know.

[–] paynejeremy 13 years ago

The following list of 12 films includes my Top Ten of the 1920s:

Battleship Potemkin
City Lights
The Crowd
The General
The Gold Rush
Greed
Intolerance
Metropolis
Napoleon
The Passion of Joan of Arc
Sherlock Jnr (saw with live score by Blue Grassy Knoll)
Sunrise

2 by Chaplin & 2 by Keaton.

[–] tobias_681 12 years ago

1. Sunrise
2. The Last Laugh
3. Battleship Potemkin (Modern Times would come at rank 3 if it wasn't partwise with sound)
4. Faust
5. Nosferatu, a symphony of Horror
6. Metropolis
7. The Golem
8. The Goldrush
9. The General
10. The passion of Joan of Arc

Those are the only 10 silent's (feature films) I rated 10.

Sunrise is amongst my 3 favorite movies.

You see things; and you say Why? But I dream things that never were and I say Why not?

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[–] scif100 11 years ago

1. Sunrise (1927) - not only my favorite silent film, but quite possibly the best movie ever made, sound or silent.
2. The Crowd (1928)
3. The General (1927)
4. Intolerance (1916)
5. Battleship Potemkin (1925)
6. Sherlock Jr.(1924)
7. Metropolis (1927)
8. Nosferatu (1922)
9. Greed (1924)
10. The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)

Honorable Mention:
The Big Parade (1925)
Pandora’s Box (1929)
Un chien andalou (1928)
Our Hospitality (1923)
The Docks of New York (1928)

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[–] tonko-kordic-432-446059 11 years ago

I tend to take movie thing seriously so my choice is little heavy, I'm afraid:

1. Dreyer: The Passion of Joan of Arc (28)
2. Keaton: The General (27)
3. Griffith: The Birth of a Nation (15)
4. Murnau: Sunrise (27)
5. Dovzhenko: Zemlya (30)
6. Stroheim: Greed (24)
7. Murnau: Der Letzte Mann (24)
8. Vertov: Chelovek s kino-apparatom (29)
9. Chaplin: Gold Rush (25)
10. Eisenstein: Battleship Potemkin (25)

It is significant to see two Murnau's and Nosferatu nearly missing 10th place. Obviously also missing here are Intolerance, Metropolis, The Phantom Carriage, The Wind...